Ministry of Finance: Reallocated Land from Urban Land Readjustment Eligible for Social Housing and Long-Term Care Use if Meeting Two Criteria

(Taipei, June 15 — Reporter Lu Yan-Ci) To enhance the capacity of social welfare policy implementation, the State Property Administration (SPA) under the Ministry of Finance announced today that starting May this year, for state-owned non-public land managed by the SPA and reallocated through urban land readjustment, if the land meets area and zoning conditions, it will proactively consult competent authorities for social housing or long-term care to assess the feasibility of using the land as a reserve site for social welfare facilities.

The SPA explained during its regular press conference today that, in active alignment with the central government's major national policies on social housing and long-term care, it has previously instructed its branch offices and local agencies to proactively contact competent authorities—including the Ministry of Interior's Directorate-General of Land Administration, the National Housing and Urban Renewal Corporation, or local governments—to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing such reallocated state-owned land as reserve sites for social welfare facilities, thereby enriching the sources of land for social welfare infrastructure.

The SPA stated that if the assessment confirms the feasibility of using the land as a social welfare reserve site, it will cooperate in providing the land to achieve effective shared benefits and serve public interest.

According to the plan, land eligible for evaluation as a social welfare reserve site must meet two conditions. First, the area of state-owned non-public land in a single or adjacent parcel within the same block must be at least 0.1 hectares. However, if adjacent to other state-owned public land, local public land, or land designated as payment-in-kind in government-led land readjustment projects, the area may be cumulatively counted. Second, the zoning classification must be residential, social welfare facility, or institutional land—suitable for establishing social welfare facilities.

Officials gave an example: through prior coordination with the New Taipei City Government, state-owned non-public land in the second phase of the Xintai Wenzaijun Urban Land Readjustment Project in New Taipei City was centrally reallocated. Of the reallocated land, approximately 80% will be reserved for social housing. This new measure will also be applied to land reallocated from other urban land readjustment projects in the future.

The SPA emphasized that social housing and long-term care policies are core government initiatives. Beyond continuing to provide land, the agency will strengthen horizontal coordination with central and local competent authorities to enhance the efficiency of national asset utilization and promote social well-being. (Edited by Lin Ke-Lun) 1150615